Title :
Stereo Mission Overview
Author :
Kaiser, Michael L. ; Adams, W. James
Author_Institution :
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt
Abstract :
NASA´s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission began as a concept study in 1997 and was confirmed as a follow on to NASA´s highly successful line of Solar observing missions. Launched on October 25, 2006 the twin observatories will take unprecedented images of the sun from a unique off the sun-earth axis angle in 3-D. Along with the suite of ultraviolet and visible light imagers the mission also carries an array of state of the art energetic particle detectors and electromagnetic sensors to enable better understanding of the dynamics of the sun´s coronal mass ejections and solar wind.
Keywords :
Sun; artificial satellites; astronomical instruments; image sensors; solar wind; NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory mission; STEREO Mission; Sun; coronal mass ejections; electromagnetic sensors; energetic particle detectors; solar observing missions; solar wind; ultraviolet light imagers; Earth; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Magnetic field measurement; NASA; Observatories; Space technology; Space vehicles; Sun; Weather forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 2007 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0524-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-323X
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2007.352745
